The Law of Webnovels

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Running along the hallway urgently with Yeo Ryung, I murmured to myself, ‘What on earth has happened?’

I, of course, leaped for joy once I got to know that both gentlemen recovered their consciousness since everyone had longed for it so much. However, aside from that, it was very awkward that they both woke up simultaneously as if they had promised to do so, especially right after a suspicious person broke into their rooms.

With a grimace, I tried to recall the little girl who bumped into me earlier in the hallway, but the hallway was so dark and the girl was covering all herself with her clothes so tightly that her face wasn’t recognizable at all. All that came up in my head was her petite figure, black shiny hair stuck out under her hoodie, and pale face.

I also vaguely remembered that she looked up at me with her black eyes shadowed by her hoodie. ‘She didn’t look like the main character of a web novel,’ I thought while rubbing my chin.

So that was what I felt weird about. If she had some unique hair color or eye color, I would have considered, ‘Ah, she also has some extraordinary ability,’ but she did not. ‘Anyway, the fact that both men have awoken from the coma has nothing to do with that girl, right?’ I wondered.

Suddenly, a novel that I read just for fun a few months ago flashed through my head. It was about a run-of-the-mill teenage girl getting treated as a divine feminine after moving into a different universe.

‘No,’ I shook my head, ‘I don’t think that can happen, oh, please…’

Rambling those thoughts in my head, the door of the patient room, where Yoo Chun Young’s father was staying, came into view. Regardless of the silly thoughts popping in my mind, I could quickly arrive at the place since I ran as hard as I could.

The moment I tried to jump into the open door, I paused my steps hesitantly at the sight inside the room. Yeo Ryung also stopped walking and carefully observed inside.

Not only Yoo Chun Young and Eun Hyung but Yoo Chun Young’s mother and his two brothers, Yoo Gun and Yoo Shin, were also inside there. Well, of course, they would be inside the patient’s room since they were all his families.

If that was only the case, I would have went inside, exchanged greetings, and just left; however, Yoo Chun Young’s father and Eun Hyung’s father were having some conversations.

The strained atmosphere was difficult to intervene, so both Yeo Ryung and I just stood close to the door and held our breaths. The two gentlemen’s voices reached our sensitive ears through the sound of our breathing.

“… Has happened this way, so we won’t be able to move our bodies for a while…”

“Right.”

“It seems to me that both of us don’t have a good connection to cars. Don’t you think so?”

Eun Hyung’s father had a grim expression as soon as Yoo Chun Young’s father dropped those words. My face also stiffened as I grasped the context of the conversation.

Was Yoo Chun Young’s father trying to fire Eun Hyung’s father right now? If that was the overall situation, I could understand why the atmosphere was so tense.

This wasn’t something we should listen. If we continued to eavesdrop their conversations, we couldn’t help but jump to conclusions on our own standards. In that case, it would soon cause a crack in our friendship.

As if Yeo Ryung also had the same thought as mine, she gave me an eye signal toward the hallway. That was when I nodded and tried to take a step forward.

“So, why don’t you please stop driving from now on and make up your mind to study again?”

“You’re talking about…”

“Studying law again.”

My eyes widened. I never heard about what Eun Hyung’s father did before he became a driver. I did think he would be intelligent just like his son, Eun Hyung, but didn’t know he had majored in law. Now I was able to figure out roughly how things went on.

Right after Eun Hyung’s mother passed away, Eunmi developed her illness; Eun Hyung’s father might have had to get a job as soon as possible.

Perhaps Yoo Chun Young’s father tried to support Eun Hyung’s family without any charge, but if Eun Hyung’s father had the same personality as his son, he would have not taken any funding or assistance for free.

Thus, Eun Hyung’s father would have quit studying law and became a driver, but Yoo Chun Young’s father seemed to take this incident as an opportunity to return things back to usual.

“… Mr. Chairman…” uttered Eun Hyung’s father with a tearful voice.

And that was the last words we heard in front of the door. Both of us exchanged eye contact and bent our steps.

Giving a slight bow to the bodyguards looking at us in front of the room, we left the hospital without delay.

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Since we ran like crazy from the moment we stepped outside the entrance of the hospital, we were able to take the last bus on time. As soon as we sat side by side in the almost vacant bus, we blurted out at the same time, “Thank goodness,” “So good.”

Once we spoke that way, Yeo Ryung and I soon leaned our heads against each other. Only the sound of our breaths hung in the air between us. Although we remained silent, we could estimate what each other was thinking about.

Yeo Ryung uttered abruptly, “I wish they become happy.”

“Very true.”

As I agreed that way, the word ‘happiness’ felt very abstract. However, there wasn’t any energy left to suddenly discuss what happiness was right now, so I leaned my head more onto Yeo Ryung’s head as if I was trying to fall asleep and kept on thinking my way.

I turned my head toward the window. It would be so wonderful if happiness was clearly visible so that everyone could see that it was coming. Heaving a sigh, I had my arms crossed.

Now I had come to think of it, this incident seemed to become a good luck to Eun Hyung in the end.

There’s something called a blessing in disguise. Eun Hyung managed to confess his true feelings to Eunmi by this chance; Eun Hyung’s father finally recovered from coma, which proved that Eun Hyung wasn’t always unfortunate; Eun Hyung’s father might begin studying again.

When we all first confronted the news, we almost panicked; the waiting time was like moments in hell; however, now things seemed to reward Eun Hyung enough. Well, there wasn’t always gain after pain; actually, Eun Hyung was closer to the side where things didn’t deserve his hard work.

‘Hmm, so the lesson of this incident is, ‘We never know what will happen,’ something like that?’ Wondering for a second, I soon realized one thing. Now I had come to think of it, I could find a similar example near around, which was me.

It seemed like yesterday when I wrote the first lines of my diary saying that the disaster had happened since I came into the world of a web novel or something like that. The desperate and frustrating sentences I wrote while barely sustaining from my mental breakdown were still vivid in my mind.

‘Ban Yeo Ryung took the nationwide first place in the exam again. I won’t be able to live in this world anymore… According to the law of survival of the fittest, a species like me will fall behind ASAP…’

Haha, that was really funny to think about right now. I kept on thinking with a small giggle.